Two Eastern European mobsters were convicted in a chilling plot to assassinate an Iranian-American journalist on US soil—at the behest of the Iranian government. A Manhattan federal jury found Rafat Amirov,

A jury has convicted two men of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City in a murder-for-hire scheme that prosecutors said was financed by Iran’s government.

The defendants, who are from Azerbaijan and operated from overseas, are accused of hiring another Azerbaijani man, who lived in the Bronx, to carry